Month: March 2019

A brain-cancer vaccine more than 20 years in the making suspends cancer growth in patients enrolled in early-stage trial. (PHILADELPHIA) ...

CD40 combination therapy can shrink pancreatic tumors

Study results to be presented during a plenary session at AACR Annual Meeting ATLANTA - A new combination of immunotherapy ...

Excess body weight before 50 is associated with higher risk of dying from pancreatic cancer

ATLANTA --Excess weight before age 50 may be more strongly associated with pancreatic cancer mortality risk than excess weight at ...

Pancreatic Cancer Collective funds two AI teams to identify high-risk populations

Computational tools seek to identify pancreatic cancer earlier, provide more opportunities for timely, effective treatmentsCredit: Pancreatic Cancer Collective (ATLANTA - ...

Immunotherapy combination effective for patients with rare neuroendocrine cancer

Credit: Hope Foundation for Cancer Research A combination of two common immunotherapy drugs shrinks rare, aggressive neuroendocrine tumors, according to ...

Adding savolitinib to osimertinib beneficial for certain pretreated lung cancer patients

ATLANTA -- Adding the investigational MET inhibitor savolitinib to the EGFR inhibitor osimertinib (Tagrisso) yielded clinical responses in patients who ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitor combo efficacious for patients with neuroendocrine carcinoma

ATLANTA -- A combination of the anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapeutic ipilimumab (Yervoy) and the anti-PD-1 immunotherapeutic nivolumab (Opdivo) showed clinical benefit among ...

HER2-targeted CAR T-cell therapy shows promising antitumor activity in patients with sarcoma

ATLANTA -- A combination of chemotherapy and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells designed to target the protein HER2 was ...

Mesothelin-targeted CAR T-cell therapy shows early promise in patients with solid tumors

ATLANTA -- A chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy that targets the protein mesothelin showed no evidence of major toxicity ...

Fish slime: An untapped source of potential new antibiotics

ORLANDO, Fla., March 31, 2019 -- As current antibiotics dwindle in effectiveness against multidrug-resistant pathogens, researchers are seeking potential replacements ...

Stunning discovery offers glimpse of minutes following ‘dinosaur-killer’ Chicxulub impact

LAWRENCE -- A study to be published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a scientific ...

Gastrointestinal complaints in children could signal future mental health problem

A Columbia-led study finds adversity-induced disruptions in the body's gut microbes influence are linked to changes in brain function A ...

Mount Sinai and Hasso Plattner Institute launch new institute for digital health

Credit: Mount Sinai Health System The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) and the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) today announced an ...

Supercomputers help supercharge protein assembly

XSEDE allocations on Stampede2 and Comet speed simulation of protein oligomersCredit: Taylor et al. Red blood cells are amazing. They ...

66-million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor

Fossil site preserves animals killed within minutes of meteor impactCredit: Graphic courtesy of Robert DePalma The beginning of the end ...

Three Konstanz researchers win prestigious Human Frontiers grants

Projects by Dina Dechmann, Alex Jordan and Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin are among 34 selected in global competition Dina Dechmann, Alex Jordan ...

UA immunobiologist will use $1.9 million grant to explore copper’s potential as antibiotic

Pneumonia starts like this: A bacterial cell called Streptococcus pneumoniae enters the nostril. It travels down the nasal passage and ...

Contrast-enhanced MRI provides useful findings in discordant core biopsy management

An essential part of breast intervention is the process of assessing concordance between imaging findings and core biopsy results. When ...

Lumbar spine MRI reports are too difficult for patients to understand

As increasing numbers of patients gain online access to their radiology reports, a new study published in the April 2019 ...

Patient factors contribute to imaging follow-up rates